I don't know other than they are now expensive.
Their was a period of time when they may have
been considered a reasonable value. Understand
I'm only familiar with the pricing from Iomega's
web site. If I remember correctly, the only complaints
were concerning its USB Hub. I do like the way they
look. If you find one that has a price you find
acceptable and the Hub may be secondary then
give it a go. The Instruction Book should be Downloadable
from Iomega's web site. Down load a copy and
read about how the USB Hub works.

Bill i had one other question about getting a bigger HD
My mini is about 5 years old it's
Version 10.5.8
2.6 Ghz Core Duo
1 Gig memory 667mhz DDR2 SDRAM
120 Gig HD
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I see the new Mini is $599 and has a 500Gig HD do you think i should just upgrade ?
If not will the spec you gave me on the Hitachi HD work on an older Mini ?
Thanks again for all your help

The newer mini's HD is I think 5400RPM.
Sooner or later (probably sooner) you'll
want to replace it with a 7200RPM HD.
The point I'm trying to make is, even a
new mini can need upgrading.

As far as when to replace your current mini,
thats when it no longer serves you well. If
the way you use your mini today doesn't tax
it much, then keep it. I see you can increase
your RAM, that may benefit you. You could
probably replace your HD with a much bigger
and faster model that could be useable in a
new mini in the future, since you may need to
replace a new mini's HD. That would serve you
NOW and in the FUTURE.

You might stick with OSX 10.5 since it doesn't
require as many resources as 10.6 or 10.7.
Their really isn't much different in the way
these three OS's fundamentally operate.

What it really boils down to is "Don't fix it
if it ain't broke". If you want / need to fix
something then I would only upgrade parts
of your current mini if they may serve your
new mini.

The other way to look at it is, if you are going
to buy a 500GB HD and don't care about the
speed then instead of spending something like
$100 on a HD for the current mini, apply that
$100 toward the new $599 mini affectively making
it $499.

Sure, I like and use the Hitachi 500GB 7200RPM.
Samsung makes the same size but 5400RPM which
gives most 7200RPM discs a run for their money.
Their are now 750GB Discs that are 7200RPM's
but I'm not up to speed on them.

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Hand" installed and activated.

Simply search Amazon for what you want and Invisible
Hand will find the lowest price on the internet for the
item on the Amazon page your on.